A matter of life and death After last month’s aborted Cork University Hospital debate on euthanasia, Matthew Gregg wonders whether or not we are simply doing ourselves a disservice by refusing to discuss the issue. Do we have the right to choose when we die? Our right to free speech gives us the right to bite our tongues. Our right to vote does not prevent us abstaining. So does the right to life grant us an equal right to death?
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